User:TEACHER IGOR/sandbox/Big Jake - The biggest horse of the world

THE HISTORY
Big Jake, was purchased when he was only a foal weighing 80 kg (which is already very much for the size). Jerry Gilbert, who purshased Big Jake, tell: “He was extremely hard to hold on to when he was young and when I would turn him outside, sometimes he would take me with him!", but today, fortunately, he calmed down with animals and does a good job when he has to load a wagon.

NOWADAYS
Today, Big Jake measures 2.10 in height and weighs approximately 1 ton and 200 kg and is 18 years old. He achieved the Guinness World Records title in 2010 (when he was 9), since then hundreds of visitors gathered at Smokey Hollow Farm in Poynette, Wisconsin, USA (where he lives today) to see the magnificent charger with his own eyes.

THE BREED
Big Jake is a Belgian horse; horses of this breed tend to be slightly taller and heavier, with the average male at 1.68 in height and the female at 1.64 in height. As we can see, Big Jake has broken a little his genetics. Belgians have a high incidence of junctional bullous epidermolysis, a hereditary genetic disorder that causes newborn foals to lose large areas of the skin and have other abnormalities, usually resulting in euthanasia. A 2001-2003 study found that 17.1% of Belgians tested in the US and Canada were carriers, including 13.5% stallions and 28.9% mares. Consequently weighing more, the Belgians are excellent horses for physical effort.